Comments on: New Projects

By: leoNard

leoNard — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:41:29 +0000

Far out… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_languages Good post! I think Marina should do one with {BREAD}—It is generally agreed that the word was coined 2500 years ago in ancient Greece by the playwright Aeschylus, or whoever else wrote Prometheus Bound (line 11). There the author told as a myth how the primitive creatures that were created to be human, at first had no knowledge, skills, or culture of any kindâ€”so they lived in caves, in the dark, in constant fear for their lives. Zeus, the tyrannical king of the gods, decided to destroy them, but Prometheus, a Titan whose name meant “forethought,” out of his “philanthropos tropos” or “humanity-loving character” gave them two empowering, life-enhancing, gifts: fire, symbolizing all knowledge, skills, technology, arts, and science; and “blind hope” or optimism. The two went togetherâ€”with fire, humans could be optimistic; with optimism, they could use fire constructively, to improve the human condition.

The new word, Ï†Î¹Î»Î¬Î½Î¸ÏÏ‰Ï€Î¿Ï‚ philanthropos, combined two words: Ï†Î¯Î»Î¿Ï‚ philos, “loving” in the sense of benefitting, caring for, nourishing; and á¼„Î½Î¸ÏÏ‰Ï€Î¿Ï‚ anthropos, “human being” in the sense of “humankind”, “humanity”, or “human-ness”. Prometheus did not “love” the proto-humans individually, because at that mythical point in time individuality did not yet existâ€”that requires culture.[dubious - discuss] What he evidently “loved”, therefore, was their human potentialâ€”what they could accomplish and become with “fire” and “blind hope”. The two gifts in effect completed the creation of humankind as a distinctly civilized animal. ‘Philanthropia’â€”loving what it is to be humanâ€”was thought to be the key to civilization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philanthropy Help spread the “BS” and share the begging :lol: burger building :-)

By: lividemerald

lividemerald — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:36:00 +0000

I’ve made great use of the “Lessons by date” link. Sometimes, I get behind in my video viewing / posting, so I use that link. Please maintain that link!

By: leonard

leonard — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:26:18 +0000

cool, knew Marina was not doing all her work alone–go cat go :razz:

By: mijj

mijj — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:43:19 +0000

oo! .. lol … i’ve visited there a few times and i never noticed that!!

I’m such a thicko!! .. no! don’t contradict me, I’m a thicko!

By: mijj

mijj — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:40:32 +0000

By: pedantickarl

pedantickarl — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:28:51 +0000

Doesn’t that already exist on the Words/Lessons link at the top?
Click Words/Lessons link on the top menu, then click “Lessons by date”.
You will see all videos in reverse chronological order. When you click on any video, it gives you the date below the video. That link also has the videos categorized by month.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:49:48 +0000

Mijj, you can already do that on Marina's YouTube channel on this page.

By: mijj

mijj — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:49:41 +0000

AND … while i’m here, before i forget ..

.. i feel anxious seeing M do one vid per day and working so hard .. mainly cos it makes me guilty about freeloading at her expense …

… so i suggest .. to lighten the burden ..

… free M for at least one day / week by having a guest vid made by one of her .. what’s the word .. registered members of the site.

.. e.g. .. i know cupcake has done a spoof vid, and i asked for a link, but she ignored me (boohoo), so .. that kind of thing could be a good one day / week thing.

I’m completely new to the YouTube culture .. but i think plenty of other members here probably do vids, too – simultaneously do them a favor AND lighten M’s burden.

By: mijj

mijj — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:41:42 +0000

oh .. AND … see if there’s an alternate post thing for the thread that allows retrospective editing of the post for at least a short period of time …

.. i guess the practicalities of this are way to complicated .. but i had to dump it outa my brain.

(brought to mind cos i noticed below i said “list ordered by time” when i meant “list ordered by date“, but it’s too late to alter it.

By: mijj

mijj — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:38:10 +0000

… oh .. plus …

have this thread as a clear public “site suggestions” thread with a link in that row of navigation links up the top.

v. good idea to have a place like this for suggestions.

I tend to have loads of rubbish ideas cluttering up my head, but they wont go till i dump them into a place like this (and let someone else see if there’s anything worth considering).

… and it keeps them out of the main word-vid threads.